In Sydney, the eastern beaches suburbs, Darlinghurst and Manly have been the focus of Airbnb activity, which accounts for between 11.2% and 14.8% of rental housing stock. In Melbourne, central Melbourne, Docklands, Southbank, Fitzroy and St Kilda have been the focus of Airbnb listings, which account for between 8.6% and 15.3% of rental housing stock.

Employees looking for a hike in salary have lost their bargaining power because of a rise in underemployment, according to a new paper by University of Stirling economists.

Professor David Bell and Professor David Blanchflower, of the Stirling Management School, looked at the reasons wage growth has remained static despite the return of the unemployment rate to pre-recession levels.

In their paper, The Lack of Wage Growth and the Falling NAIRU, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research today, they attributed this to the rise in underemployment which rose in the Great Recession but has not returned to pre-recession levels.

Underemployment refers to people who are highly skilled but working in low-paying or low-skill jobs, and part-time workers who would prefer to be full time.

Contract to contract gig work - no wage increments or other benefits, no way to join a union if you work for a different place every 3-9 months etc
Using the US as an example of where things go when work is insecure but seemingly plentiful - theguardian.com/business/20 … since-1969

Are there any tax implications of hosting students on an ongoing basis?

The Rent a room disregard rate is fairly generous. You’d want to be having two or more students 48 weeks of the year at the usual going rate (which is between €150-€190 per week incl breakfast and evening meal) for the revenue to take interest. I’d have one neighbour who exceeds that income threshold but I would say it’s pretty rare and the costs of chasing such cases is probably not worth it to the authorities.

Would you like to share your home with a revolving door of disparate teenagers for that length of time? I personally don’t know how she does it other than it must be a necessity given her personal circumstances.

Crowdfund to rent out those airbnb sh*tholes and then make them uninhabitable. Direct action is the only thing that works when you can’t rely on laws - That guy in the story put in so much work and the council did nothing.

What does HAP and rent income supplement do to rents. I have not done the advantages and disadvantages of this, it seems to put low paid full time workers at a disadvantage if they can’t get a supplement. Regarding the Airbnb business, this is a relatively labour intensive business to run, all the waiting around and cleaning up and waiting. Then you have to pay household charges, water, waste, heating, esb,insurance and a premium of 15 per cent fees to Airbnb, nothing very much left. We need everything to solve the housing people shortage. Everything.

First, the gig economy appeared swollen largely because the labor market earlier this decade was so weak for so long in the aftermath of the recession. Rather than heralding a permanent shift in the relationship of Americans to employers, a lot of gig-economy activity was odd jobs that people took up to make ends meet.** As the economy returned to normal, they returned to more familiar work arrangements.**

UK is the increase in student involvement in sex work in recent years (particularly erotic dancing, other non-direct services and escorting) as the cost of university has risen. Reasons cited by students for their involvement in sex work include greater flexibility and financial reward compared to traditional part-time work. Recent figures suggest that almost one in 20 students now engage in sex work during their time at university and more than one in five have considered it.

Is this the commercialisation of everything via the gig economy or is it the generation who grew up with smartphones and saw everything including hard core porn from a young age? or a combination?

Just in Dublin on a single one of those sites there are over 2,000 women, mainly in their 20s and even late teens offering themselves as prostitutes (sorry “sugar babies.”) Most of them include pictures of their faces. When you count the numbers engaged in other forms of sex work, it’s a pretty shocking figure for a city with this size of population in a supposedly wealthy “progressive” country.

Just in Dublin on a single one of those sites there are over 2,000 women, mainly in their 20s and even late teens offering themselves as prostitutes (sorry “sugar babies.”) Most of them include pictures of their faces. When you count the numbers engaged in other forms of sex work, it’s a pretty shocking figure for a city with this size of population in a supposedly wealthy “progressive” country.

That’s appalling.
What website are you looking at (you know, for science) ?

Just in Dublin on a single one of those sites there are over 2,000 women, mainly in their 20s and even late teens offering themselves as prostitutes (sorry “sugar babies.”) Most of them include pictures of their faces. When you count the numbers engaged in other forms of sex work, it’s a pretty shocking figure for a city with this size of population in a supposedly wealthy “progressive” country.

That’s appalling.
What website are you looking at (you know, for science) ?